Against the Tide

Over the last 25 years more than 20,000 migrants have died in the Mediterranean in their attempt to reach Europe. Boats have gone adrift and sank under the eyes of coast guard ships, surveillance patrols and sometimes military buildings. In July 2012, a Euro-African activist coalition called “Boats 4 People” chartered a boat in order to monitor the border and denounce those responsible for this situation. Activists, lawyers and journalists were on board to sail the migration route the opposite way it is usually crossed by boat-people. This documentary shows the extraordinary action taken by activists from Africa and Europe – raising awareness, mobilizing public opinion and continuing the struggle for the rights of boat-people.

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He’s one of the most hated men in history – the apostle who betrayed Jesus Christ. For centuries, his name has meant treachery and deceit – Judas Iscariot. Now, hidden for nearly 1700 years, an ancient Gospel emerges from the sands of Egypt. It tells a different story – one that turns the tale of Jesus Christ’s betrayal on its head. National Geographic Television explores the history, message, and global impact of perhaps the most important discovery in Biblical archaeology in sixty years, in the exclusive two-hour television event, The Lost Gospel of Judas. According to the best available sources, the Gospel’s modern story began in Middle Egypt in 1978 when a farmer found a codex containing it in a cave.

Unable to read its ancient script, he had no idea it contained a controversial Christian Gospel, one that was branded ‘heresy’ in antiquity, then lost for nearly 1700 years. The farmer sold the codex through a middleman to an antiquities dealer in Cairo. There, in the Egyptian capital, it was promptly stolen! And so began the manuscript’s decades-long journey of mischief, mayhem, and international intrigue. Rumours of its existence circulated until 2000, when it was purchased by antiquities dealer Frieda Nussberger-Tchacos. Tchacos transferred the codex to the Zurich-based Maecenas Foundation. With support from the National Geographic Society and the Waite Institute For Historical Discovery, they brought in a crack team of experts to preserve and translate the document.

In the oceans of our planet lurk creatures weirder than our wildest dreams or our scariest nightmares. Multi award-winning underwater cameramen John Boyle and renowned Red Sea specialist John McIntyre have collaborated to produce this wide ranging blue-chip television special, filmed over several years, portraying some of the strangest underwater creatures from every corner of the planet. Among the creatures featured is one of the world’s longest animals, a strange snake-like jellyfish which can grow to well over 40 metres and has deadly stinging cells all along its body – yet it doesn’t even have a brain, the cannibalistic squid, shark that can only walk on the seabed and the supremely ugly frogfish, which strikes quicker than almost any other fish in the sea.

At Strokestown House the volunteer servants wake up to a day of 18th century hard work. They have to get to grips with running the house and the kitchen staff must prepare a banquet from a 300 year old menu and to serve it as it would have been served hundreds of years ago. Presenter Bryan Murray travels around some of the grandest and wealthiest houses to find out more about the opulence of what is called the Golden Age of the Big House.

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Year: 2013

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